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GP leaders clash with Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt over AE crisis
Jeremy Laurance is Health Editor of The Independent and the i and has covered the specialism for more than 20 years. He thinks the harm medicine does is under-appreciated, the harm it prevents over-rated, and that cycling works better than most drugs. He was named Specialist Journalist of the Year in the 2011 British Press ...
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Halfords eyes three-year turnaround but investors take fright
Halfords ' chief executive has outlined a three-year turnaround plan for the struggling bicycles and car parts chain, but it will come at a cost to investors, who have seen the dividend cut by 35%.Matt Davies has set a sales target of 1bn by 2016, but said that profits would remain flat for at least two years as the chain invests 100m in staff training, store revamps and a better online ...
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Hezbollah should be labeled a terrorist group say France Britain Germany
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Hezbollah should be labeled a terrorist group by the European Union, France, Britain and Germany said Wednesday. The Lebanese militant group ...
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Tescos Fresh Easy boss awarded liquidation damages
Tesco 's failed US chain Fresh & Easy has received a 1.7m payoff despite the business being shut down after repeated losses.Tim Mason, who departed in December after 30 years at the group, was awarded "liquidation damages" equivalent to his annual salary plus a sum equal to his average bonus over the past two years.Tesco announced last month it would exit the US after racking ...
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Halfords investors face uphill climb until 2016
Matt Davies' revamp plan - Getting into Gear 2016 - is honest about the time required for a turnaround and investors must accept there are no quick ...
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Two more arrested in case of murdered British soldier
Drummer Lee Rigby (25) from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers who was named today as the soldier hacked to death in Woolwich yesterday. Photograph: police handout/PA ...
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Andy McSmiths Diary Woolwich Twitter witness Boya Dee refuses to sell story
Andy McSmith is a senior reporter at The Independent. He has vast experience in political journalism and has also appeared on documentaries for BBC Radio ...
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No 10’s new energy adviser is a former British Gas lobbyist
Tara Singh, whose previous role as public affairs manager at British-Gas owner Centrica involved frequent contact with the Conservative Party, took up her newly-created role at Number 10 this week.She is responsible for briefing the prime minister on a day-to-day basis on issues relating to energy and climate change.This is a crucial role as the government works furiously to complete the Energy ...
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Leading headteacher Michael Gove chickening out on return of grammar schools
One of the country's leading headteachers is to accuse Education Secretary Michael Gove of "chickening out" of bringing back a return to grammar ...
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National archives reveal MI5 bugged Edward VIII’s phone calls
Cahal Milmo is the chief reporter of The Independent and has been with the paper since 2000. He was born in London and previously worked at the Press Association news agency. He has reported on assignment at home and abroad, including Rwanda, Sudan and Burkina Faso, the phone hacking scandal and the London Olympics. In his spare time he is a keen runner and cyclist, and keeps an ...
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British terror Mom kept soldier’s bloodied attacker talking
Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, a cub scout leader and mother of two, jumped off the bus to help the dying soldier, then kept one of the murder suspects talking so he wouldn’t hurt anyone else. — ...
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British police arrest two more over London attack
1 of 18. A man with bloodied hands and knives speaks to a camera, in a still image from amateur video that shows the immediate aftermath of an attack in which a man was killed in southeast London May 22, ...
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Woolwich killing residents reflect on murder of Lee Rigby
People gather outside the Royal Artillery barracks in Woolwich, close to the scene where Lee Rigby was killed on Wednesday. Photograph: Facundo ...
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Blue is the Warmest Colour installed as frontrunner for Palme dOr
A hail of enthusiastic tweets followed the Cannes premiere of Blue is the Warmest Colour - elevating it to the status of the critics' favourite of the festival, and not a moment too long at three hours.It also happens to contain the lengthiest, most intimate and most graphic lesbian sex scenes in mainstream cinema history. Praised for its tenderness and intensity, it has been hailed as a ...
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Net migration to the UK down 89000 in a year
Since 2011, net migration has been on the decline due to falling numbers of immigrants. What are the other key trends behind these often controversial statistics? ...
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David Cameron honours woman who kept Woolwich suspect talking
London , sitting on the bottom deck of a bus bound for Victoria coach station as it passed along John Wilson street in Woolwich, south-east London.When she looked through the window and spotted someone lying in the road near a crashed car, she decided to leave the bus and see if she could offer first aid. She could not have known that she was walking into a terrorist attack, nor that her ...
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Cannes comes down to earth with depression-era movie Nebraska
Link to video: Nebraska: 'What it lacks in voltage it makes up in warmth' - Cannes video review This year at Cannes, film after film has delved into the world of the wealthy. The Great Gatsby's lavish parties have been rivalled by only the madly superficial Roman fiesta that begins Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty. Meanwhile their glittering possessions are filched in ...
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Lifeboat volunteer awarded gallantry medal for dramatic Fife coast rescue
A lifeboat volunteer has been awarded a gallantry medal for his role in a dramatic sea rescue that saved the lives of two men.Barry Gourlay, 30, and two colleagues battled three-metre waves in complete darkness to get to a boat which had run aground in poor conditions off the Fife coast last year.Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) bosses said his expert seamanship undoubtedly saved the ...
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George Osborne puts his pride before the national interest | Ed Balls
Link to video: George Osborne: GDP figures show we are 'making progress' The International Monetary Fund is not usually known for racy language and dramatic press releases. When IMF chiefs come to national capitals, diplomacy is normally the order of the day. So no one should be surprised that in London this week there was no public repeat of the IMF's previous comments that ...
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ENRC fears data loss from hacking and stolen laptop
Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation , warned on Thursday that it may have lost internal data as a result of computer hacking and the theft of a laptop.The problems add to a complicated picture for ENRC, a London-based but Kazakh-facing producer of minerals from iron ore to coal, which received an indicative takeover offer last week but is also the subject of an investigation by the Serious ...
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Insight In attackers argot Londoners shocked to hear one of their own
LONDON (Reuters) - In the lurid scene of the red-handed knifeman describing his motives for hacking to death a British soldier in broad daylight, perhaps the most chilling aspect for Londoners was the man's unmistakably familiar ...
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Obama condemns attack on British service member
Barack Obama said on Thursday he condemned "in the strongest terms" the attack in London on a British service member. "The United States stands resolute with the United Kingdom, our ally and friend, against violent extremism and terror," he said in a statement. (Reporting by Mark Felsenthal; Editing by Eric Walsh) (This story has been refiled to correct ...
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Obama condemns killing of British soldier
US President Barack Obama has condemned the killing of a British soldier in London by two suspected Islamic extremists as "appalling" and "horrific". "The United States stands resolute with the United Kingdom, our ally and friend, against violent extremism and terror," Obama said in a written statement on Thursday. "There can be absolutely no justification for such ...
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Woolwich attack Soldier killed in Woolwich attack named as Drummer Lee Rigby
The Ministry of Defence has this afternoon named the soldier killed in yesterday's attack in Woolwick as 25-year-old Drummer Lee Rigby, of of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Regiment of ...
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England in good hands with Root and Compton says Cook
LEEDS, England (Reuters) - England have emerged from a "changing of the guard" with their batting line-up and captain Alastair Cook has backed the likes of Joe Root and Nick Compton to make their names in the test ...
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Scotland's waterways seeing revival
Scotland’s waterways, the canals used to transport bulky goods and vast quantities of coal in the days before the development of the railways, are of great significance in terms of their role in the development of the country, new projects are making sure they remain so.
Scotland recently began investing heavily in its canal system with the introduction of the Millennium Link, a project to restore the Union Canal and Forth and Clyde Canals for use by recreational boaters, tourists and to encourage investment in the tourism, retail and commercial sectors. Read more
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